Ben Pate 🤘🏻RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/115996451312302984
Wouldn’t it be cool if you could send encrypted DM’s on the Fediverse BEFORE you could do it in Bluesky? #JustBetweenUs
Ben Ramsey@benpate There’s not a lot stopping this from being added at the client level today, but the 500-character default restrictions set by the Mastodon (and other) server software makes it difficult to fit into a single post.
@benpate I wonder if the Fediverse can build on the back of the Signal Protocol. I think that protocol is non-federated, so folks would need to figure out a way to federate it, which is probably really tricky.
thomas_shone@benpate @ramsey @soatok is working on federated public key exchange specification and an example implementation (it's in PHP): https://github.com/fedi-e2ee . This is a key component of getting to E2EE in a federated configuration.
Soatok Dreamseeker@benpate @ramsey @thomas_shone The reference implementations are in PHP, but there's nothing preventing a Go or Rust implementation from materializing later on.
https://soatok.blog/2026/01/15/software-assurance-that-warm-and-fuzzy-feeling/ explains the testing methodology behind this project.
https://publickey.directory offers at-a-glance project status
@ramsey @thomas_shone pro strategy there